But I'm a Creep. A lab report.

This text is meant to be a warm companion for you before or after attending our workshop: ON CREEPY OLD MXN & BEYOND – & playSPACE, Saturday, December 18, 2021, at serrat(u)s bodywork in Zurich. – – – "How about I follow you around all day tomorrow?" – "But then I’d know that... Maybe you could hire someone I don’t know to follow me around in secret, like a stalker?” – “Oh, that’s a good idea!” – Two people plot how to achieve that feeling that sends cold shivers down your spine. Because something feels off, even if nothing clearly dangerous is happening. They’re surrounded by a whole group of people who are compiling a sort of curiosity cabinet of such weird ideas. One person is thinking of designing jewelry out of clipped toenails, while another wants to pursue a creepy hobby for a private collection: secretly cutting off a lock of hair from each of her lovers and cataloging them. One woman kneads pizza dough to put on her face as a grotesque mask, because she was considered too young and pretty to trigger this specific…